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Margaret Xu

Forgotten Lemon Chicken


Forgotten Lemon Chicken

Demonstrated at the 2011 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Ingredients

  • 400g fresh corn-fed chicken fillet
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • salt and white pepper to taste
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1 tbsp egg white
  • 2 tsp light soya sauce
  • 1 lemon, juice and zest
  • ¼ cup rock sugar, crushed
  • 2 tbsp organic honey
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • ½ cup corn starch
  • 2 tbsp cooking oil
  • 3 shallots, sliced
  • ½ tsp sesame oil to finish

Sauce Base

  • 1 tbsp water
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp lemon liquor (optional)

Method

  1. Remove skin and tendons from fillet.
  2. Carve grooves on the fillet about 2mm wide, in criss-cross pattern.
  3. Turn over the fillet and repeat the process on other side.
  4. Pound with a pestle to tenderise and flatten.
  5. Slice into smaller pieces, each piece about 3cm square.

Marinade

  1. Place chicken pieces in large bowl.
  2. Add the 1 tbsp water and leave for 20 minutes.
  3. Add egg white and light soya sauce and mix thoroughly.
  4. Add the beaten egg.
  5. Coat the fillets evenly with the cornstarch.

Slow Frying

  1. Heat 1 tbsp of the cooking oil in a heavy saucepan, medium high heat.
  2. Lay chicken fillets in the pan, lower heat and fry on one side until golden, about 5 minutes.
  3. Add the remaining 1 tbsp oil, flip over and fry the other side until thoroughly cooked and golden.

Lemon Sauce

  1. Using the same oil in the pan, fry shallots slowly until translucent.
  2. Add chicken stock and lemon juice and bring to boil. Add salt, pepper and organic honey.
  3. Add cornstarch sauce base and stir until thickened.
  4. Return golden chicken fillets to pan for a minute. Switch off heat, add lemon zest and sesame oil. Serve hot.
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  • Charlie15
    April 2011

    Margaret: I congratulate you on your recipes and their pure understated presentation. Your food looks fresh enough to reach out and take a piece. The lemon chicken looks marvellous and I will be trying it for supper. I live in Canada and simply hate the chinese/american food. Almost everything is breaded, and like all things north american, tastes like fast food. I love the fresh taste of authentic oriental cooking. Thank you for sharing your recipes and I hope their are many more to come.

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